Re: How to suppress unwanted BibDesk fields in IEEE manuscript when using LyX

[list_email]

> On Dec 1, 2016, at 4:04 PM, list_em...@icloud.com wrote:
> 
> Sorry for cross-posting.
> 
> I am preparing an IEEE Transactions manuscript (IEEEtran LyX template) that 
> references a bibtex database maintained by BibDesk. BibDesk shows filled-in 
> fields for such things as DOI, URL, and ISSN. I do not want these fields to 
> appear in the IEEE bibliography because IEEE formatting does not want them, 
> but they do. Is this a bug in IEEEtran or can this be controlled by LyX or do 
> I have to mess with something else? Is this related to IEEEtran.cls?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jerry

Just to close off this thread: I believe that the problem arose in how I came 
to use IEEEtrans. I originally wrote my piece using the standard Article class, 
then switched to IEEE class. Things looked pretty good until I looked more 
closely, then I realized that there were certain problems, including the one I 
described above. Others included wrong text size on figure and table captions 
and no drop cap on the first paragraph. I copied and pasted sections from the 
Article in LyX into a blank IEEE template in LyX and most of the problems went 
away. I still had to fiddle around to get things right. I suspect that had I 
originally written the piece in the IEEE LyX template, there wouldn’t have been 
problems. It seems that it is expecting too much to have all formatting, or 
even major aspects of formatting, be preserved when switching document classes 
within LyX.

Thanks for the comments.

Jerry

Re: How to suppress unwanted BibDesk fields in IEEE manuscript when using LyX

[Joel Kulesza]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 4:04 PM,  wrote:

>
> I am preparing an IEEE Transactions manuscript (IEEEtran LyX template)
> that references a bibtex database maintained by BibDesk. BibDesk shows
> filled-in fields for such things as DOI, URL, and ISSN. I do not want these
> fields to appear in the IEEE bibliography because IEEE formatting does not
> want them, but they do. Is this a bug in IEEEtran


This is perhaps an inconsistency where the IEEEtran.bst LyX is using is not
in line with current IEEE requirements.  This statement assumes you are
using BibDesk to generate a BibTeX file that LyX then uses with the
IEEEtran style.


> or can this be controlled by LyX or do I have to mess with something else?


I recommend adjusting your current IEEEtran.bst, searching for an
IEEE-compliant .bst to use, or creating your own with makebst.  A workflow
would be like:

First use latex makebst to be routed through a menu-driven interface to
define the various stylistic parameters for the bibliography entries. This
will create a .log and .dbj file. From there, run tex ...djb to create a
standard .bstfile.

Some guessing-and-testing will likely be necessary.


> Is this related to IEEEtran.cls?
>

I don't believe so.  The .cls file controls the document layout, the .bst
file defines the bibliography style.

How to suppress unwanted BibDesk fields in IEEE manuscript when using LyX

[list_email]

Sorry for cross-posting.

I am preparing an IEEE Transactions manuscript (IEEEtran LyX template) that 
references a bibtex database maintained by BibDesk. BibDesk shows filled-in 
fields for such things as DOI, URL, and ISSN. I do not want these fields to 
appear in the IEEE bibliography because IEEE formatting does not want them, but 
they do. Is this a bug in IEEEtran or can this be controlled by LyX or do I 
have to mess with something else? Is this related to IEEEtran.cls?

Thanks,
Jerry